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I Built a Free App to Help California Workers Track Their Own Hours and Detect Possible Violations
California has some of the strongest wage and hour protections in the country. Meal breaks, rest breaks, overtime, split-shift premiums — the law is specific about what workers are owed. The problem is that most workers have no independent record of what actually happened. Their employer keeps (and manipulates) the timesheets. If something looks wrong…
Read MoreLabor Attorney Eugene Lee Wins $500k and $235k Appeals, Defeats $10 mil. Lawsuit
Congratulations to Eugene Lee, Esq. for winning two separate appeals in the 2d District Court of Appeal. The result allows his clients to keep the $506,000 and $235,000 in judgments he won for each of them. In the process, he defeated a $10 mil. lawsuit that an employer had brought against his client. Opposing counsel…
Read MoreWe’ve Been Named a Top 100 Legal Blog!
Great news! The Daily Reviewer has just selected “California Labor & Employment Law” as one of its Top 100 Legal Blogs. We’re very excited by the recognition. A big thank you to the hard-working editors at the Daily Reviewer. Keep up the good work and we’ll keep on doing what we’ve been doing and hopefully…
Read MoreI'm Baaaack (and with a Jury Verdict to report)
Sorry for the long hiatus, folks. But I do have an excuse: I was tied up doing a particularly grueling 3-week jury trial in federal court in Fresno, CA. I’m happy to say that the good guys won — a unanimous verdict on all counts: disability discrimination (mental disability) under the California Fair Employment &…
Read MoreWe’ve been named a Top 100 Employment Law Blog!
The good folks over at the "Delaware Employment Law Blog", which is itself a top-notch employment law blog published by the Delaware law firm of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, have seen fit to include our blog in their roundup of the Top 100 Employment Law Blogs across the country . Of course, we’re…
Read MoreYours Truly Will Be MIA for 3 Weeks
Sorry folks but it looks like I won’t be posting here for a while. I’m about to head into 3 straight weeks of back-to-back depositions (lawyer-speak for witness interviews in a lawsuit). For the non-lawyers out there, that’s a LOT of depos. I’ll get back to posting as soon as the craziness lets up. Until…
Read MoreThank You to Michael Fox of “Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer”
Michael Fox runs one of the oldest and most respected employment law blogs (blawgs?) in the business, "Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer" . He was blogging long before it became fashionable. I’ve been a regular reader of his blog and a fan. Recently, Michael got nostalgic and posted this entry: "6 Years, 1800 Posts and…
Read MoreI'll Be Taking A Brief Break from Posting
My work schedule for the next month is going to be very tight so posts may become more sporadic. I’ll let you all know as soon as I am able to get back to more regular posting. If you’ve got questions, feel free to click on the “Ask An Attorney” tab at the top and…
Read MoreWe've Been Named "Blawg of the Day"
Renowned legal website Inter-Alia.net has been kind enough to name us as their Blawg of the Day. Inter-Alia.net is an Internet legal research weekly which discusses legal blogs of note, legal news, etc. that is published by Tom Mighell. Thank you and a tip of the hat right back at ya!
Read MoreA Selection of Interesting Articles from Legal Blogs Around the World
Peter Black’s blog, Freedom to Differ, recently hosted a weekly editorial roundup of interesting articles from legal blogs around the world. Peter Black is a law lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. His blog focuses on happenings in the area of internet and media law. I was honored to have two of my…
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